As far as age I'm not a good judge of that, but the coloring says pullet. I love that pattern -- wish I could get one like that!
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OMG, she looks just like my Esmeralda! She had red on her wings at that age too and had me guessing about her sex up until a few weeks ago when she started squatting. Based on her size I would guess she is about 2 months old, and when she starts her juvenile molt she should get a lot more blue laced red feathers on her back and wings. Congrats!
Alright, I've been putting this off for as long as I could, trying to wait until my feathered kids were big enough to post here. My chickens in question are two chickens we purchased as easter eggers from a local feed store who are ten weeks old; younger than our silkies but older than our other three EE's. One I'm sure is an EE, the other I have no clue but is likely just a weird EE, she/he kinda has a little cheek fluff starting and the tail is hung so low and so curved over her/his rump I don't know where to start, you'll see in a minute. But the question here is hens or roos!
Isis, the one I know is an EE
The glam photo to show body color
The glorious beard (just because I love it so much, it's the poofiest beard out of any of the EE's I've had!)
Better view of her color and comb
Boo, the giant sibling. (Literally, she/he's the largest of the bunch)
Body coloring and that weird tail
Mug shot (Isis at the bottom, Sophie in the bottom corner and angel in the back)
Now Boo has never really had much of a tail as a chick, and had booty feathers before her tail came in, small and exceptionally curved. Boo is also built like a football. I haven't really seen this on an EE yet, so I'm curious if she might be something else, or if she's just weird. Isis on the other hand grew pretty fast and evenly, and while feisty as a chick is now one of the middle to lower ranking chickens, with Boo being the roughest now. Neither of them really have any spur growth at all and only just this week they started pinking up in the face; which I can't tell if it's from hormones or from the 100 degree temps with 85% humidity we've been having. I have my fingers crossed for girls!! I already have a dapper little silkie roo in the coop.
Edit: Also I thought I should say, I've been obsessively checking for shiny saddle feathers since they started feathering out, and neither of them has any coming in, and all their neck feathers are blunt, not pointed.
I think this got missed... Anyone have an opinion?
I think this got missed... Anyone have an opinion?
Boo looks like a pullet to me. Maybe the mini-tail means she has some Araucana ancestry showing.
Isis is a little harder to tell. For 10 weeks, the comb looks large and red (hard to see in the pics) and the legs look thick too. The coloring looks like a pullet, though, so far. Leaning toward pullet.
Oh no! That's Camo, isn't it? Are the feathers sharply pointed at the bottom? If yes, he's a boy for sure. My EE pullet got new "hackle" feathers too, beautiful dark iridescent black with gold lacing, but they are very femininely rounded. Have you checked for saddle feathers lately (along either side of backbone up from the tail)?